Ever since tablets got popular, it's been almost impossible to find a decent notebook. Everybody's playing conservative and going for bottom-level pricing, ugly oversided junk models, and/or the gamer market. What happened to the 10" models with 8-12 hour batteries? Or anything with a screen resolution over 1366x768? I'm waiting for a notebook (real keyboard, usb ports, etc.) with DPI and battery life that come anywhere near what tablets have nowadays, and it looks like I'm going to keep waiting... P.S. Please refrain from replies referring to any sort of fruit...

Except in extreme conditions, "waste heat" is waste. You could get the same effective heating at somewhere between 15 and 40 percent of the energy cost by using a heat pump.

I would hope all major browsers would blacklist these certificates like they blacklist malware plugins/extensions.

Indeed. I would consider the standard lifetime for a car to be 25-30 years.

There's a simple principle I go by for jokes: something is a legitimate joke when you're making fun of yourself or of [someone in] power. When you're making fun of someone you hold power over, that's not called a joke. It's called being an asshole.

Who's the idiot who modded this Informative? It's obviously trolling, which under most circumstances would be -1,Troll, but given the context, I think +1,Funny would have been more appropriate.

Nope.

That's got to be for insuring damage to your own car too... otherwise it's just insane.

I completely fail to understand the willingness of anyone to use one of these things for any discount. Even for a 100% discount I wouldn't do it. Insurance is cheap (I pay $280 a year); you'd have to be either too broke to buy gas, or a complete idiot, to sell your privacy for such a low price.

Wouldn't it be better to just uninstall Java and Adobe-anything? Chrome can read PDFs and play Flash purely with the components packaged with it; there's no need to install third-party add-ons. And Java is pretty much 100% useless except in corporate intranets with Java-based in-house software.

I would guess he based it on some ascii art from the infamous "annoy.irc" script (nsfw)...

And fifth is getting laid for making the romantic fire, no?

Saving $280 a year is not something I would base such a decision on... at that rate it would take more than the rest of my life to recover in savings what I spent on the new self-driving car.

If you use skype for calling telephones, you're getting ripped off horribly. Their rates are 3 to 10 times higher than good VoIP providers (personally, I recommend Diamondcard or Callcentric which both have good rates and service quality, but you can get even cheaper if you look around for lower-quality VoIP carriers), especially once you figure in the "connection fee" they added which often gets applied even when you call doesn't really go through. It's not as bad if you have a monthly plan (which waives the connection fees and has unlimited calling to selected countries) but unless your usage is really high you can still get better prices paying per-minute with other carriers (and, for some countries, you can even get cheaper unlimited plans with other carriers).